Found at the DDR museum in Berlin. Apparently making childrens play with each other is communist propaganda.

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  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    20 days ago

    one of the more amusing/instructive bits i remember picking up is how kids don't expect the adults to communicate with each other outside of what they see. like the benefit of cooperation and communication hasn't sunk in yet, so its a magic superweapon that can be used against them. the staff had this post meal meeting where the kids would have supervised play in a big field and we took about 20-30 minutes to identify the days issues like little douchey cliques to separate or who was acting shitty earlier in the day or who was having a hard time and needs a little extra, because they all floated between our tracks however they wanted.

    the troublemakers and bullies were always baffled that yes, everyone else knows what clever moves you were pulling before lunch. like the adults were some other species of humanoid with a hive mind.